An Amazing Revolutionary Era Life Discovered!
Four years ago, I sat next to a dinner party guest and learned about an old journal passed down through generations by her family. The previously unstudied, but well-preserved journal […]
Tag Archives: American Revolution
Examining Intimate Revolutionary Relationships
Unquestioningly, people assume that intimate relationships among the sexes in Revolutionary America were what we commonly refer to today as puritanical. Well that might have been the reality at one […]
Unmasking Gender Influences in the American Revolution
Often, historians focus too heavily on military campaigns and political activities when interpreting the American Revolution. In doing so, they miss important cultural, social and demographic trends which greatly influenced […]
Overcome but not Vanguished -A highly successful Loyalist Regiment during the American Revolution
Book Review The Queen’s American Rangers Donald J. Gara (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015 Contrary to popular belief, significant fighting in the American Revolution took place between rebel and loyalist […]
General Israel Putnam – A Historiography
A Historiography of the published works on Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam Historians in the first half of the 19th Century hotly debated the effectiveness of Putnam’s military career. First […]
A Guide to Revolutionary Arlington Cemetery
Visit oft neglected sections of Arlington National Cemetery on your next visit to reflect on past and future vets. This walk takes about one hour along shaded paths away from […]
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789
Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian is the author of a new book chronicling the period after the American Revolution up to the enactment of the US Constitution in […]
Moses Robinson – Under Appreciated American Founder
Book Review Moses Robinson and The Founding of Vermont Robert A. Mello Barre and Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 2014. Most historians emphasize Ethan and Ira Allen’s role in the founding […]
The Continuing Enigma: Revolutionary General John Stark
Book Review Stark: The Life and Wars of John Stark, French & Indian War Ranger, Revolutionary War General by Richard V. Polhemus and John F. Polhemus, (Delmar, NY: Black Dome […]
Cited as Number 1 Journal of the American Revolution Article in July!
This week the Journal of the American Revolution published my article on How the British Won the American Revolution. Feedback has been considerable with strong views supporting and contesting my […]
Early American History, Nature and The Human Spirit 